By randomly changing the opacity and adding a little text-shadow, one can create this old typewriter effect: Makes good use of currentColor for the shadow, so it can be applied on any coloured text. Old Typewriter Text Effect → 💁♂️ Don’t confuse this effect with a typing carousel which types the letters one-by-one.
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Deploying multi-source sites to Netlify
Deploying one site (from a single source repo) to Netlify ain’t that hard – see my instructions here – but what if your sources are spread out across multiple repos? How do you combine the data without duplicating it into a monorepo? That’s exactly the problem Spatie was having for their docs.spatie.be: the website holds […]
Hermes, a JavaScript engine optimized for running React Native on Android
Interesting announcement from Facebook: Hermes is an open-source JavaScript engine optimized for running React Native apps on Android. For many apps, simply enabling Hermes will result in improved start-up time, decreased memory usage and smaller app size. At this time Hermes is an opt-in React Native feature, and this guide explains how to enable it. […]
Clock Experiments by Vasilis
Vasilis had some fun and created these experimental clock interfaces. First up is the “Decimal Clock”: If we had ten hours in a day, instead of 24, and if each of these hours had 100 minutes instead of 60, and if every minute had 100 seconds, our clocks would look like this, and the time […]
React: Forget about component lifecycles and start thinking in effects
Yesterday, while at a workshop, React Hooks (intro here) became the subject of discussion between participants. Someone in the audience asked how to easily map the classes+lifecycle way of thinking onto hooks, as she had trouble doing so. In short, my recommendation was to no longer think in lifecycles but to think in effects, as […]
CSS Grid Demo: “Kandinsky zum 60. Geburtstag”
Nice work by Tatiana Mac, in which she recreated “Kandinsky zum 60. Geburtstag” by Herbert Bayer using CSS Grid. For comparison, here’s the original: Kandinsky Geburstag Invite on CodePen →
The State of CSS 2019
Despite being over 20 years old, there’s signs that CSS might be going through the same tumultuous teenage years that JavaScript just went through. Flexbox! Grid! CSS-in-JS! In 2019, CSS is finally dyeing its hair pink and getting a tattoo just like it’s always secretly wanted. Parenting books won’t help much with this one, but […]
Typed Properties in PHP
As mentioned before I’m really looking forward to Typed Properties that will land in PHP 7.4 (now in alpha!). Brent has done a full writeup on ‘m: In this post we’ll look at the feature in-depth, but first let’s start by summarising the most important points: They are available as of PHP 7.4, which is […]
Chart Design Guidelines at City Intelligence
At the City Intelligence unit at City Hall almost anyone can create a data visualisation. To keep everyone in line they created Data Design Guidelines: Effective communication of evidence and data through information design and data visualisation, is obviously important to help inform policy internally, but it is also just as important to help boroughs […]
Google Street View is a Time Capsule
Recently the Google Street View footage for the area I live in got updated. This got me thinking: Google Street View is a time capsule. I’m quite sure that one day we’ll be able to time travel through the captured footage. GooBing Detroit is a project compares old and new GSV footage from the Detroit […]